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Outline: Major Depressive Disorder
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Part 1-Describing the Disorder
Major depressive disorder is a mental health disorder where the patients are constantly in a
depressed mood and lose interest in most activities in their daily life.
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Part 2- Treatment Options
One of the evidence-based treatment options for major depressive disorder is psychotherapy.
The second treatment option is still on the psychotherapy options-interpersonal therapy.
The other treatment is electroconvulsive therapy which is primarily helpful for patients who are
not responding well to medications and have suicidal tendencies.
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Major Depressive Disorder
Part 1-Describing the Disorder
Major depressive disorder is a mental health disorder where the patients are constantly in
a depressed mood and lose interest in most activities in their daily life. It is classified under
depressive disorders in the DSM-5. The DSM-5 further outlines the criteria that can be used in
diagnosing the major depressive disorder. Individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder
have to be experiencing five or more than five of the symptoms within the same two-week period
of the symptoms listed in the DSM-5. Before delving into the other symptoms, it is essential to
note that diagnosing a patient with a major depressive disorder should be either a depressed
mood or a loss of interest and pleasure in anything. The first criteria outlined in DSM-5 are that
the patient should report or have been observed as a depressed mood almost all days. This means
that the patient may be feeling sad, hopeless, and empty to some extent.
The patient should also show diminished or no interest in any of the day's activities that they
would have formerly partaken. There should also be significant weight loss. This is in cases
when the patient is not in any dieting program. Consequential weight loss may mean the patient
has lost more than 5 perce...